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Demographic Characteristics of the Population of the United States, 1930-1950: County-Level (ICPSR 20)

Principal Investigator(s):Gardner, John, University of Chicago. Center for Urban Studies; Cohen, William, University of Chicago. Center for Urban Studies

Summary:

This data collection contains county-level information
on total number of population and internal migration in the United States
from 1930 to 1950. Demographic information is provided on race, age,
and sex for the counties. There are variables that provide information
by age group on the number of native-born white males and females,
foreign-born white males and females, Black males and females, and males
and females of other nationalities such as Indians, Japanese, and Chinese.
For 1930 and 1940, the population is tabulated in fiv... (more info)

This data collection contains county-level information
on total number of population and internal migration in the United States
from 1930 to 1950. Demographic information is provided on race, age,
and sex for the counties. There are variables that provide information
by age group on the number of native-born white males and females,
foreign-born white males and females, Black males and females, and males
and females of other nationalities such as Indians, Japanese, and Chinese.
For 1930 and 1940, the population is tabulated in five-year intervals
until age 34 and in ten-year intervals thereafter. For 1950, the numbers
of whites and non-whites are given by sex and age in five-year intervals.
Additional variables provide information by age group on net migration of
white males and females, and on Black males and females. Other variables
give information on births and deaths.

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Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Gardner, John, and William Cohen. Demographic Characteristics of the Population of the United States, 1930-1950: County-Level. ICPSR00020-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00020.v1

Universe:
A total of 3,111 counties, plus a few aggregated spatial units,
in the 50 states of the United States.

Data Types:
census data, and aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:

United States Bureau of the Census censuses of population
for 1930, 1940, and 1950

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: